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Aligning developer experience initiatives to business outcomes
Elliot Graebert, Advisor at Coder, shares his insights and experiences in building teams at Palantir and the need to always tie your programs back to the needs of the business. Often, we can get caught up in the excitement of a project, but miss the larger picture. Which is why Elliot details the best ways to handle high and low performers, his strategy around developing new services and killing old ones and the struggles of trying to build an internal developer portal.

Reactive programming and fintech challenges with Tamir Dresher
Get ready to level up your development game with our latest episode featuring reactive programming guru Tamir Dresher, Head of Architecture at Payoneer. Tamir shares his insights on reactive programming and how to build reactive applications and reactive systems. He also explores how this paradigm allows Payoneer to build with a zero-downtime mindset, while handling millions of users in hundreds of countries — each with differing regulations and technical requirements.

Replay with Paul Osman: A deep dive into OpenTelemetry and Kubernetes
In this replay of a previous episode, unlock the secrets of OpenTelemetry, Lambda as a scalable CPU, and building a platform team. We revisit our past episode with Paul Osman, a Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn. At the time of the recording, Paul was a staff Platform Engineer at Honeycomb. In this episode, we dive into OpenTelemetry, architecture, and how to build long-term Ops strategies.

Moving off the monolith: Implementing a decentralized framework to drive scale-up growth
Scaling and re-platforming your operating systems to meet the scale of your company can be a never-ending task. Re-engineering, re-training, and re-tooling can all quickly become overwhelming. Our guest today discusses his approach to refocusing and building out a technical and decentralized framework in a company that had previously viewed tech as an enabler, rather than a driver of business growth.

Driving scale by optimizing experimentation and developer experience
When it comes to scaling up, time is everything, and it feels like there’s never enough. Implementing a solid culture of experimentation can deliver the right balance between speed and standardization needed to optimize growth. Our latest guest on Level-Up is Daniel Gebler, the Founder & CTO at Picnic. He discusses how he built a culture of experimentation that enabled him to scale Picnic from an idea to over 3,000 employees and how the culture continues to drive growth by optimizing the developer experience.